It's hard to say at this distance what was right or wrong, but I often think that if it was just about greed and money, none of the miners would have been ready to die for it. It was more about having to pay a heavy licence fee without any say in how the fields were being run. After the fight, most of what the diggers wanted was granted, so there must have been something in their claims. A few years ago, someone found all the official documents from the time which had been stored in the toilets at one of the government buildings, I believe the jail or police headquaters. Someone got permission to explore these which apparently was not too pleasant as they had been used as targets by some of the more playful users of the toilet. Among the correspondence were letters to and from the officials at Ballarat and one of the interesting things that came to light was that the government forces were sailors taken from ships that were in dock at the time. Does anyone remember any more of this?